Show JUDGE ADVOCATE HERE Captain Will Conduct Gond Case CIse Against Major Egan at Fort Douglas Captain captala Delemere of Den Din Denver Denye ver IV ye judge advocate of the military eart e urt that win convene tomorrow morrow t fore faze nooit DOOk for tor the trial or ciZ Major Egan sur ur surgeon geon of Fort Poet Douglas arrived in Salt I Lake for forthe forthe yesterday ay and aM Ad preparations the proceedings were at rot once begun A number Bomber of other officers summoned IN to tomake tomake I make up the trial body are expected j to arrive today tody In Lu the Interim lm Cap Captain tain tam rett will investigate the evi evidence deuce dence against the surgeon and prepare it tor presentation Oft It is ia 1 understood that the principal witnesses are en jested men who were excluded from the thep post p t or know of cases where other men mea were excluded when in a weak physical condition onel department command commander er will leave today after alter having hav made madea de deA a ft thorough inspection of the tile fort with witha a view to reporting to the commission having ha vin under consideration the pro proposed proposed posed improvements It was expected that Cr lonel would remain over until the h opening of ot the but it is 13 l something with which he has had little to do the charges e having been approved by General Merriam be before before before fore he assumed command of the de do department department A in the abstract tract is Ia isa Isa a unique institution saU ask the U judge advocate It SIt is neither a branch of Q the judiciary Judicial nor a judicial tribunal and is little understood by the tile public pubU It is an instrument to determine the facts as a civil court does doe applying the same annie rules rales as to evidence and to a treat extent as to judgments Its Ita sen sea sentences sentences follow not DOt only the tile United States laws la but to a a large degree those of the state tate in m which it sits sit The court is I composed of ot commissioned officers del delegated delegated ted r the f authority th who may be tie the president predent of the United States tp any general officer or colonel commanding a territorial department This convening authority his suc sue successor successor cessor or in some seine cases his hiB superior becomes what is 18 known Down as 8 the review reviewIng lug Ing authority when the court comes eo to toa toa toa a determination As the reviewing au nil he be gives atvea vitality to the findings of ot the court which without this action actton on ou W hi h p part pirt rt baa has no force in law being merely advisory The Tb court In reach reaching reachIng ing Ine its conclusions acts In the double capacity of a judge and jury as it de do determines det t both the Ute law and the evidence The prosecutor is judge advocate w wo wese ose e functions are similar to those tho of ofa ofa a ap prosecuting attorney The accused ed edis is ordinarily represented by counsel coun el elRia Ria Hs counsel and the judge advocate be between between tween them bring t to the attention of the court the facts upon which judg judgment mont ment nt Is IB based balled Major Kajor Egan has as yet given no in timaton of who will represent ent him as e counsel nor has any other light been beeR thrown t roWA on the case calle I |